XYI EEPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Building expenses brought forward $552 15 $25, 380 84 



General expenses : 



Meetings of the Board $347 25 



Postage and telegraph 202 28 



Stationery 407 45 



General printing, blanks, &c 91 30 



Incidentals, gas, &c 408 79 



Books, periodicals, binding 779 33 



Salaries, Secretary, clerks, and labor . . 9, 180 67 



11,417 07 



Publications and researches : 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowl- 

 edge 2, 367 65 



Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 2, 631 01 



Smithsonian annual report 775 12 



Explorations 1, 522 18 



Apparatus 151 25 



7,447 21 



Literary and scientific exchanges (in addition to 



appropriation by Congress) 3, 307 59 



Total expenditures 22, 724 02 



Balance on hand 2, 656 82 



Interest on the Smithson fund for six months ending June 



30, 1885 21, 090 00 



Total cash on hand July 1, 1885 $23, 746 82 



NATIONAL MUSEUM AND OTHER OBJECTS COMMITTED BY CONGRESS 

 TO THE CARE OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



The following appropriations were made at the second session of tbe 

 yorty-eighth Congress for the ISTational Museum and other objects com- 

 mitted to the care of the Smithsonian Institution : 



For the preservation and exhibition and in- 

 crease of the collections received from the 

 surveying and exploring expeditious of the 

 Government, and other sources, including 

 salaries or compensation of all necessary 

 employes $95, 000 00 



For expenses of heating, lighting, and tele- 

 phonic and electrical service for the new 



Museum building 0, 000 00 



$104, 000 00 



For care of the Armory building and grounds, and expense 

 of watching, preservation, and storage of the property 

 of the National Museum and of the United States Fish 

 Commission contained therein, including salaries or com- 

 pensation of all necessary employes .,,,...,....,.,.,, 2, 500 00 



